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Jul. 28th, 2004 10:38 am
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Well, Maelstrom was really ace.
I enjoyed it immensely. Even the whole execution and mob scene, although I apologise for the amount of chaos and mayhem the fallout caused...

Yes 'fessing up the piracy was a little rash, but in all honesty, I was wanting to run 'legit-ish' as James Lyrus, rather than how it turned out. (Getting executed for piracy for an empty ship though. Argh!).

Annoyingly, finding out later that the sacuzza were going to be wanting a _reasonable_ amount of cash, and if I'd known that, then ... well I probably wouldn't have felt forced into piracy.

*shrugs* it is done.

Thorn, I'm not sure how i'll go with him. I'll be there next event, but whether it's 'officially' the same character or not, I don't know. (I'm looking to find out a little more about new world deities etc.). Hippy druid priest sort of thing. I think that'll work nicely, and mean I get to go, see the factions, socialise and not run around like a loony trying to sort stuff out.

On an OC note, I have no problems with remaining 'OC contact'. Exactly how things develop IC, ... well I guess I'll have to see how that goes ...

There were a few things I was a little unhappy with during the event, but I'll lay them aside for now, until I've had a chance to speak to a few people. I found dealing with GOD to be most frustrating, especially the whole disappearing food issue, and the looong delay on lammies. I suspect we'd have been able to sell our goods if we'd been selling on friday/saturday morning...

I was a little irritated by the whole 'piracy' thing - the fact that you boarded ships, seized cargo and I guess ended up with something to sell if you were successful was one thing. The fact that despite succesfully doing so, there was no choice to steal/scuttle the ship, I can _sort_ of see - after all, it's a little harsh to lose PC resources in downtime. (although the cargo?). But giving them a 'this ship attacked you' on their downtime was the thing that bothered me somewhat. I mean, the 'let the witnesses (and their ship) go' is really the actions of a very stupid pirate.

If it'd been "A man of war boarded you, stormed your ship and took your stuff" with perhaps a chance to get the name if you were able to resist them.... well that woulda been different.

On a completely unrelated note, it seems that AAH are recruiting again (the same place I went before). I turned 'em down, because ... well the time wasn't right, and the pay wasn't _much_ better. The new role, is "as before + solaris and 'senior' stuck in the description.". Oh and 34k a year + on call. The recruitment agent has been in touch to see if I'm interested...

There's definitely a temptation there, but I was, and I think still am, thinking of holding on to september/october. (and have just booked almost the last of my holiday for the next maelstrom - a half day left).

Date: 2004-07-28 03:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malal.livejournal.com
I'm not too sure what was going on with that pirate thingy. I know the empty ship was just there to catch pirates in the act, and had a scary number of men at arms on board.

Date: 2004-07-28 04:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sobrique.livejournal.com
OK. There were obviously more downtime options available to others then, because I _did_ manage to board and seize...

*shrug* didn't want to be pirating in the first place, just because we _thought_ we had to magic up 200kyat in 6 months, and for one of them there was remarkably little to do...

Date: 2004-07-28 09:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ehrine.livejournal.com
The empty ship didn't have _any_ men at arms on board else it would've gone worse. As it is, I think the Sacuza just managed to wangle better ship name detection due to the fact that they built it (and allegedly have hidden marks that they can recognise). *shrug*

Date: 2004-07-28 10:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xarrion.livejournal.com
So it was a Sacuza ship that was raided? Seeing as they had someone on board able to recognise secret markings.
Why were the Kamakuran's involved then?

And yes, having the victims being able to see the name of the boat doing the pirating is just stupid / rule 7 breach IMO.

Date: 2004-07-28 10:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ehrine.livejournal.com
The Kamakuran's were involved due to it happening in what Kamakura claims is their waters.

Date: 2004-07-28 11:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malal.livejournal.com
*Cough*ActuallyTheyGotInvolvedBecauseThey'reGoodFriendsOfOursAndWeAskedThem*Cough*

Date: 2004-07-28 12:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ehrine.livejournal.com
Sorry, did I forget to say that was the official public reason :P I never said it was the real reason :P

Date: 2004-07-29 09:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yapman.livejournal.com
The name alone gets you little. Of course, raiding the people who sold you the ship ...

Date: 2004-07-28 04:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crashbarrier.livejournal.com
oh well. its done now and wel we'll just have to cope with the fall out.

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